"They quit Heizhu early and left the rivers and lakes, for so many years, I thought it was impossible to meet, and I didn't hang this matter in my heart. Shen Fengming said, "I remember when my father just died, the family was crying and mourning, and my eldest mother, who was my father's main house, taught us a few children, saying that we would avenge our father when we grew up." Later, when I left home, I mentioned it to my mother, but she said, 'If you want revenge, go and take revenge, but if you don't want revenge, you don't.' I said, 'I don't know if I want to, so I'm here to ask you.'" She said, 'You don't know it now, but when you grow up, you will know.' In fact, if she had given me a definite answer at that time, whether I was going to take revenge or not, I would have made it my life's belief and would not have doubted it. But now I understand that she doesn't want to restrain me in any way, even if she probably hates Heizhu very much in her heart, but she doesn't want to use the so-called 'righteousness' and 'filial piety' to make me fall into hatred and life and death. ”

"You...... The person you are talking about is Lingli?The person who assassinated your father is Lingli?" Okra couldn't help but interject.

"It's Su Fufeng. Shen Fengming said, "But it's very powerful—of course I also know." ”

"Su Fufeng?" Okra bit her lip and snorted, "No wonder, I knew she wasn't a good person." ”

Shen Fengming shook his head. "In Lin'an, in Dongting, and on the Gold Medal Wall, Su Fufeng has helped me, and it is all life-threatening matters, even if she owes me something, it will be settled a long time ago. ”

He glanced at Xia Yan. "I've been in Heizhu for many years, and I know that I shouldn't blame a killer for any crime. I've killed people myself, how can I find a killer to take revenge? Even-maybe it's been too long, I met Su Fufeng for the first time in Wulin Fang this year, I thought that when I met, I could imagine how this person stabbed the secret weapon into my father's body back then, or he would have hatred, but in the end, he couldn't give birth to anything. On the contrary, Ling Li was not in Lin'an at that time, and every time I saw her with Wuwu, I would think of the way my mother and I were dependent on each other back then. If you're worried that I'm going to do her bad, you don't have to. ”

"I was a little worried, but since you said that-" Xia Yan raised his glass, "I thanked you for them." ”

"Thank you is nothing to thank. Shen Fengming clinked glasses with him, "It's not that I'm magnanimous and can let go, it's someone else who has been hanging in my heart for so many years." That person, I'm afraid I won't be able to give in. When I was in Hongfu Building, if it weren't for you and Thorn Thorn and Okra coming out of thin air to stir up the situation, I would have already succeeded. ”

Xia Yan didn't speak. He never wanted Cheng Fangyue to die at the hands of Shen Fengming one day, but he also knew that it was useless to dissuade him. He was also confused in his mind - if the day did come when they would fight again, he really didn't know what to choose. He could only secretly hope that Cheng Fang would be more like in the past many years, leave Huizhou less, and even step out of Qinglong Valley less, and not have a chance with Shen Fengming.

The three of them talked again, drank a little wine, and didn't realize that it was almost time. Okra said that he couldn't drink enough, so he went back to the house first.

"Mrs. Xiang is not now. Shen Fengming was slightly drunk, and said to Xia Yan with a smile, "At that time, there was one thing that was willing to admit defeat, at this time, he was delicate and frail, he was really a little daughter's family, and he couldn't go to the rivers and lakes." ”

"I just feel that when I come back this time, she treats you a lot better," Xia Yan said, "Everything is towards you." ”

"Didn't I exchange my life for it?" Shen Fengming glanced at him, "Shouldn't it be towards me?"

Xia Yan asked him about the many dangers of this trip, and asked about the poisoned injuries, Shen Fengming only smiled: "You finally remember to care about me or not?"

"You didn't say that in your letter, I just said - only that you weren't hurt. Xia Yan poured him wine. Fortunately, Shen Fengming was in danger at that time, but the poison of the Nether Frog did not attack, and Guan Fei's palm in his chest had almost disappeared after these days, and he was finally completely fine. The two of them talked in detail about the details of the battle in Dongting for a while, but they talked for a long time, until the night wind suddenly blew the lights in the house, and then they remembered that they should not have left okra alone for a long time.

The two went back to the house, and okra borrowed a pampas mat and leaned against the wall, but when they looked closely, they had already fallen asleep. The two closed the back door and put down the bottle and glass, but she didn't wake up.

"Tsk, you can sleep so deeply while sitting. Although Shen Fengming's voice was lowered, the smile could still be heard, and it was natural to go and hug the okra when he spoke, and suddenly realized that Xia Yan was watching from the side, and his mind turned and he straightened up, "Why don't you come?" lest you say that I took advantage of her." ”

Xia Yan was helpless, "Don't pretend." If you really want to take advantage of her, it's not under my nose. ”

Shen Fengming took the okra to the bed and settled down, and said: "It's good if I really have something to do—the last time she was with me, she refused to even close her eyes, as if I would do something to her." It's different with you - you see, you can't prevent it, and you just fall asleep. ”

Xia Yan was speechless. The okra had a rare smell on her face, obviously drunk. But I don't know what to do for a while - today's okra and Shen Fengming are not as good as in the old days, and he is on guard in the middle, but if he leaves them alone, he is not sure whether it is appropriate or not.

Shen Fengming shook the wine bottle on the table closely, and when he saw that there was only a bottom left, he said, "The wine is gone." I felt hungry. You wait here for me, and I'll go to the old man's kitchen to see if there are any leftovers. ”

He didn't care whether Xia Yan should or not, so he went out.

This also solved the entanglement, and Xia Yan sat by the desk and waited for him. Thinking back to what Shen Fengming said about the past, he also felt embarrassed in his heart - there were a few words that he never knew whether to say or not, and his lips rose and fell several times, but he still chose to swallow them.

Even with Shen Fengming's cleverness, he should have wanted to get it—but Xia Yan felt that he still wouldn't want to face that kind of fact—he wouldn't be willing to listen to himself face to face that the one who betrayed Murong and Heizhu's whereabouts to the Blue Dragon Sect back then was the one who was thorough.

This was Yu Rui's suspicion, but Xia Yan's answer gradually became clearer. He didn't like to obey Murong - especially, after meeting Shen Fengming and his mother, he became more and more tired of the situation at that time. He mentioned it to Yu Rui and wanted to quit, but Yu Rui didn't take it seriously - one day, he lost his old friend again during the mission, and became more and more angry with Murong and the black bamboo under Murong's orders. On that day, he had a thought that frightened him—one that was contrary to what he had believed in before.

This contradiction caused him to get drunk that day, come to their mother and son, and tell him everything about himself, and also his heart that he had hidden for so long. When confronted with them, he realized that the thought was not necessarily a betrayal—it might be a salvation. As long as Murong is dead, everything can be over, and Heizhu can return to the old order, as he said at the end of the lost letter, "return to the clean Heizhu before"—and himself, after completing all this, can safely take the two people who are more important to him to exit this river and lake—whether he lives with them or goes their separate ways.

That night, Shen Fengming's mother stayed up all night and wrote him a book, but he didn't come the next day—because he had gone to meet the people of the Blue Dragon Sect that day. The person he saw was probably Cheng Fangyu.

It wasn't until it was dark that Shen Fengming waited for his bones to come back in the light of the past, but he was uneasy—after all, he was not a veteran who could calmly betray others. Did he see that fluorescence on the illusion book that day? Xia Yan couldn't be sure. But whether he saw it or not, he made a decision, "Tomorrow morning, you will wait for me at home." That's what he said. Whether the mother and son wanted to give him the future or not, he decided to take them out of the place with him. That black jade wrench might have been some kind of future that Yu Rui had promised him - but he had decided not to. He put it together with the letter to Yu Rui, and prepared to leave it in Yu Rui's house before leaving.

But the next morning, he didn't show up as promised. Xia Yan didn't figure out what was going on at first, until he remembered what Wu Tiantong had told him about the day in Remnant Town. Shen Fengming once explained in his letter that Wu Tiantong's name in the past was "Hanging River", which can be regarded as a thorough acquaintance - Wu Tiantong said that he was not in Remnant Town that day, and happened to follow Murong out. I didn't know about this matter in advance, and when I found out that Hanging He actually went to Murong's side, I didn't want my acquaintance to have three long and two short because of this ambush, so I chased him out. - At that time, he never thought that the Qinglong Sect wanted more than just Murong - the agreement between him and Cheng Fangyu was originally limited to Murong alone.

That's why when he faced Cheng Fangyu in the end, he would say, "You have already won Murong, why do you want to kill us all?" and Cheng Fangyu said, "I don't worry about people like you." ”

He certainly had reason not to be reassured. How could a man who could betray his own people be trusted? In his opinion, perhaps all this was just a little bit of murder with a knife in the midst of the internal strife of the black bamboo -- and there was no way to justify this.

Xia Yan gently held the cup in his hand, and there was no wine in the cup. He sighed: If you think about it, you may have had a relationship back then......

He still remembered how in the tavern outside the Qinglong Valley eighteen years ago, those black-clothed men ambushed Cheng Fangyu, the new Qinglong Left Envoy. If it weren't for him and Master Fengyun accidentally bumping into each other, he would have reminded him first, maybe Cheng Fangyu would be the first to be splashed with blood on the spot. At that time, where could he distinguish who was the "good person" and who was the "bad person", but he felt that the sneaky people should be evil, so he stood on the side of the Blue Dragon Sect. The embarrassed and angry man in black really shot at him, and for so many years, he always remembered that it was "Cheng Zuo" who saved himself from the man in black when he was a child. Although he now learns that his master is the former disciple of Yan Shan, even if there is no Cheng Fangyu, the master will never let him have trouble, but this cannot erase the life-saving friendship.

There was chaos in his mind. To this day, it is still difficult for him to distinguish between "good guys" and "bad guys", and even more and more indistinguishable. Although the sneak attack of the man in black that day fell short, and even more damaged the manpower, the Qinglong Sect also relied on Shan Jiquan to stop the killing move, and Fang Bao Cheng Fangyue was safe and sound-Shan Jiquan himself was not lightly injured, which shows that the killer of the day was by no means easy. That mission should have been ordered by Murong, right? Is the man in black who handed out the killing move to the bone? If the dagger he took advantage of had not been given to Shen Fengming, would he have succeeded?......

In this way, it can explain the meaning of saying to Cheng Fangyue at the last moment, "You are a communiqué personal vendetta". And Cheng Fangyue replied to him, "It's a communiqué and a public vendetta." In Cheng Fangyu's eyes, everything is just a means that the two parties have to fight for - Heizhu assassinated him, and he killed Heizhu in the same way. Of course, the ambush in the tavern was by no means the first time that the Qinglong Sect and Heizhu had fought each other, and if you trace back to the source, it is difficult to tell who did it first and whose fault it was.